Calvert told officers as they arrested him: “I knew this was going to happen, I f***ing knew it. You lot have been following me for weeks.”

Detective Inspector Steve Langford, who led the operation, codenamed Operation Optic, said: “While they are an organised crime group they are not the most sophisticated. The photo on the boat says it all, really.”

Moore admitting importing heroin as well as £740 worth of oxycodone, £480 worth of the painkiller Subutex and £20 of cannabis. He was jailed for seven years and four months.

Two bungling drug traffickers who took photographs of themselves as they attempted to flood Jersey with £224,000 worth of heroin have been jailed for a total of more than 15 years.

Calvert, formerly of Statton Road, Broadgreen, pleaded guilty to one count of importing heroin. He was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Both men laughed, whispered and smirked between themselves as they were jailed.

Delivering the court’s sentence, judge William Bailhache told them: “You both knew the score and took your chance, and unfortunately for you, it did not pay off.”